A COMPENDIUM OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY

COMPRISING SKETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED IRISHMEN, EMINENT PERSONS CONNECTED WITH IRELAND BY OFFICE OR BY THEIR WRITINGS.

ALFRED WEBB.

“And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired: but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.”-II. MAC. xv. 38.

DUBLIN: M. H. GILL & SON, SACKVILLE-STREET.

MDCCCLXXVIII [1878]

I dedicate this Book to the Memory of my Father

RICHARD DAVIS WEBB

WHO DEEPLY INTERESTED IN ITS PLAN AND INCEPTION HAS NOT LIVED TO SEE ITS COMPLETION

I dedicate this Book to the memory of my father
Richard Davis Webb
who
Deeply interested in the plan and conception
has not lived to see the completion.

Baillie, William
Baldwin, Richard
Balfe, Michael William
Ball, Robert
Banim, John
Banim, Michael
Barber, Mary
Barker, Francis
Barker, Robert
Barnewall, John
Barnewall, Nicholas
Baron, Bonaventure
Barre, Isaac
Barrett, Eaton Stannard
Barrett, George
Barrett, John, D.D.
Barrett, John, R.N.
Barrington, Jonah (Sir)
Barry, David (Sir)
Barry, James
Barry, John, Commodore
Barry, Spranger
Barter, Richard
Bathe, William
Beaufort, Daniel Augustus
Beaufort, Francis (Sir)
Bedell, William
Bell, Robert
Bellamy, George Anne
Belling, Richard (Sir)
Benen or Benignus (Saint)
Beranger, Gabriel
Beresford, John
Beresford, John George (Lord)
Berkeley, George
Berkenshaw, John
Bermingham, John (Sir)
Betagh, Rev. Dr.
Betham, William (Sir)
Bianconi, Charles
Bickerstaff, Isaac
Binns, John
Black, Joseph
Blackburne, Francis
Blakeley, Johnston
Blakeney, Edward (Sir)
Blakeney, William (Lord)
Blessington, Marguerite
Blood, Thomas
Blount, Charles (Sir)
Bolton, Richard (Sir)
Bond, Oliver
Bonnell, James
Borlace, Edmund
Boulter, Hugh
Bourke, Miles
Bourke, Richard
Bourke, Richard Southwell
Bowden, John
Bowles, William
Boyd, Henry
Boyd, Hugh
Boyle, Richard
Boyle, Roger
Boyle, Robert
Boyle, John

Desmond, James (13th Earl)
Desmond, James (14th Earl)
Desmond, Gerald (15th Earl)
Desmond, James (16th Earl)
Desmond, James (Sugan Earl)
Desmond, John
Despard, Edward Marcus
De Vere, Aubrey (Sir)
Devereux, Walter (1st Earl of Essex)
Devereux, Robert (2nd Earl of Essex)
Devlin, Anne
Dickinson, Charles
Dicuil (the Geographer)
Dillon, Henry (Sir)
Dillon, Theobald (Viscount)
Dillon, Thomas (4th Viscount)
Dillon, Arthur (Count)
Dillon, Theobald (Count)
Dillon, Wentworth
Dillon, James
Dillon, John Blake
Dillon, Peter
Dobbs, Arthur
Dobbs, Francis
Dod, Charles Roger
Dodwell, Henry
Dogget, Thomas
Dogherty, Thomas
Doherty, John
Donat (Saint)
Donlevy, Andrew
Dornin, Thomas Aloysius
Douglas, John C.
Dowdall, George (Archbishop of Armagh)
Downes, George
Downie, George
Downing, George (Sir)
Doyle, Charles William (Sir)
Doyle, James Warren
Doyle, John (Sir)
Doyle, John
Drelincourt, Peter
Drennan, William
Dromgoole, Thomas
Drummond, Thomas
Drummond, William Hamilton
Drury, William (Sir)
Duane, William John
Dubdalethy
Duchal, James
Duff, Mary Anne
Duffy, Edward
Duggan, Peter Paul
Duhigg, Bartholomew Thomas
Duigenan, Patrick
Dun, Patrick (Sir)
Dunan
Dungal
Dunkin, William
Dunlap, John
Duns Scotus, John
Dwyer, Michael

McAllister, George
MacArdell, James
Macartney, George (Sir)
MacBride, David
McCabe, William Putnam
MacCaghwell, Hugh
MacCarthy Reagh, Florence
MacCarthy, Cormac
MacCarthy, Cormac (Sir)
MacCarthy, Donough
MacCarthy, Charles
MacCarthy, Justin (Viscount Mountcashel)
MacCarthy, Donogh (4th Earl Clancarty)
MacCarthy, Sir Charles
MacCarthy, Abbe Nicholas
McClure, Robert John Le Mesurier (Sir)
McCoise, Errard
MacConmara, Donough
McCormick, Charles
McCracken, Henry Joy
McCullagh, James
MacCurtin, Hugh & Andrew
MacDermot, Brian
MacDonnell, Sorley Boy
MacDonnell, Randal (1st Earl of Antrim)
MacDonnell, Randal (2nd Earl of Antrim)
MacDonnell, Alaster MacColl
MacDonnell, Alexander (Sir)
MacDonnell, Francis (Major)
MacDowell, Patrick
MacFirbis, Duald
McGee, Thomas D’Arcy
MacGeoghegan, James (Abbé)
MacGrady, Augustin
MacGregor, John James
Mackay, James Townsend
Macken, John
Macklin, Charles
MacLiag
Maclise, Daniel
MacLonain, Flann
MacMahon, Heber (Bishop)
MacMahon, John B.
MacManus, Terence Bellew
McMaster, Gilbert
MacMoyer, Florence
MacMurrough, Dermot
MacMurrough, Art
MacNally, Leonard
MacNevin, William James
McSkimin, Samuel
Madden, Samuel
Maelbrigid McDornan
Maelmury (Archbishop of Armagh)
Maffit, John Newland
Magee, William (Archbishop)
Maginn, William
Magraidain, Augustin
Magrath, Miler (Archbishop)
Maguire, Cathal
Maguire, Hugh (Lord of Fermanagh)
Maguire, Cuconnaught
Maguire, Connor (Baron of Enniskillen)
Maguire, John Francis
Mahony, Francis Sylvester
Maildulph
Makemie, Francis

O’Hartigan, Kineth
O’Heerin, Giolla na Naomh
O’Hely, Patrick (Bishop)
O’Higgins, Ambrose
O’Hurley, Dermot (Archbishop)
O’Hussey
O’Keefe, John
Olaf Cuaran
O’Leary, Arthur
Olioll Olum
Ollamh Fodla
O’Loghlen, Michael (Sir)
O’Lothchain, Cuan
O’Mahony, Connor
O’Mahony, Daniel
O’Mahony, John
O’Malley, Grace
O’Malley, Thaddeus
O’Meara, Barry Edward
O’Meara, Dermot
O’Meara, Edmund
O’Molloy, Albin
O’Moran, James (Gen.)
O’More, Rury Oge
O’Neill, Flaherty
O’Neill, Hugh (Lord of Tyrone)
O’Neill, Niall More
O’Neill, Henry Aimreidh
O’Neill, Owen
O’Neill, Henry
O’Neill, Con Bacagh
O’Neill, Shane
O’Neill, Turlough Luineach
O’Neill, Hugh (Earl of Tyrone)
O’Neill, Felim (Sir)
O’Neill, Owen Roe
O’Neill, Hugh (Maj.-Gen.)
O’Neill, Arthur
O’Neill, Elizabeth
O’Reilly, Alexander, Count
O’Reilly, Andrew, Count
O’Reilly, Edward (Archbishop)
O’Reilly, Edward
O’Reilly, Hugh
Ormond (Countess of)
Ormond, James (Sir)
Orr, William
Ossian
O’Sullivan Beare, Donnell
O’Sullivan Beare, Philip
O’Sullivan, Sir John
O’Sullivan, Mortimer
O’Sullivan, Samuel
O ‘toole, Laurence
O ‘toole, Adam Duff
Otway, Caesar
Oulton, Walley Chamberlain
Ouseley, Gideon
Ouseley, Sir Gore
Ouseley, Sir William